The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-05-13


THE Car, Czarina and members of the
imperial household will leave st. Peters
burg shortly for the Don Cossack country.
The entire line will be guarded by troops.
QUEEN KAPIoLANI, Of the Sandwich ISL
ands, and the Princess LiliuaBlani and
members of their suite called at the White
House on the 4th and paid their respects to
the President and Mrs. Cleveland.
A FULL inquiry at Halifax, N. S., into
the report of the marine disaster at Sable
Island left no doubt that there had been
wreck. The lost vessel was supposed to be
a schooner-apparentlya a small craft.
COLONEL RIDGEwAY, the British Commis-
sioner to the Anglo-Russian conference
for the definition of the Russo-Afghan
frontier, has been recalled. It is officially
denied that the conference has failed but
Russia has refused to yield on the KooOha
Leleh district, and no arrangement has been
reached as to the possession of Kief.
THE Berlin correspondent of the Moscow
Gazette says that the German military
authorities are training mastiffs to hunt
the French outposts in the event of war,
and falcons and other birds of prey are
being trained to chase carrier pigeons
should the latter be employed by the French.
THE Mexicans celebrated the anniversary
of their victory over the French May 5.
A DISPATCH states that Prince Dhuleep
| Singh, the India potentate who recently
left England, is at st. Petersburg. He
offers to place himself unreservedly in the
service of Russia against England and
arouse up a rebellion in India against "the
oppressor of his race"
THE steamer Aisle, from Barcelona for
Marseilles has been sunk in a collision
with the French Transatlantic Company's
steamer Ajaccio from Cette for Algiers.
Several passengers were drowned.
A FANATIC ran amuck at Odessa, Russia,
the other day and stabbed six Jews, killing
two. He was arrested in a restaurant,
where he attacked and injured Jewish
waiter. A mob of Jews tried to lynch
: him.
RIOTS over the Wagner opera were re-
newed in Paris on the 5th. Threats were
made against the German embassy, which
was protected by guard.
THE west bound accommodation on the
| Intercolonial railway struck an avalanche
/ of snow near MOncton, n. B., on the 9th.
/ Two engines and four first-class cars ran
off the track, killing Fireman Pierre LIE
| vasgeur and Brakeman Alfred Lavard.
| Mr.. KINIBALL, superintendent of the Life
| Saving Service, is compiling the statistics
/ of the winters work He says there were
| more wrecks, more rescues and more loss
of life than in any year since the service
| was organized.
! IT is reported that Italy is negotiating
with England for permission to allow Ital
/ ian troops destined for the Abyssinian cam
/ paign to land in Africa.
! IT was reported in Bucharest on the 9th
/ that disorders of an alarming nature had
! occurred at Jassy, and that number Of ar
/ rests had been made. - t+ e. ~ A..
GENERAL VILLECASTPA, leader in the mill
! tary revolt in Madrid last September, is
said to be dying in prison.
! a QUANTITY of dynamite was found in the
| luggage of a~man who died in a hotel in
| Madrid recently.
| THE Canadian authorities have consented
to allow an American fishing schooner to
| buy new lines at Halifax.
THE Duchess of Cumberland, who has
been confined in an Austrian asylum for
some weeks, is said to be improving.
! IT is reported that Vienna jeweler has
been commissioned by the Orleans family
! to bid for the Freuch crown jewels.
/ ITALY proposes to call Spain to account
for selecting as a coaling station on the
Red Sea a spot claimed by Italy.
IN the TgDles-Dlllon debate at London on
the 9th Gladstones' motion was rejected
-317 to 233, and Sir Edward Clarke's mo-
ton that the House decline to treat the
Times publication as a breach of privilege
was agreed to.
! EXTENSIVE fires were reported raging in
the Catskin forests near the great Kaaters-
kill summer hotel.
! ONE hundred houses were destroyed by
fire in the town of Eperlcus, Hungary, the
! other day.
THE business failures during the seven
days ended May 5, numbered for the Unitee
States, 153; for Canada, %; total, IS:
against 191 the previous week and 1872 fol
the corresponding week of last year.
THE colonial conference in London ap-
proved the proposal to lay cable between
| Vancouver and Australia.
lie Paris states that France has concluded
| defensive alliance with certain other
! powers, and that henceforth France viii
not be alone IN the event of aggression
/ against her
IT is reported that the Gar has decided
that the sentences of death pronounced
against the nihilists convicted of compile
ity in the recent attempt to assassinatt
him shall be commuted to Imprisonment al
hard labor for life, in the case of all bu'